Poet and Wellesley College scholar Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote "America the Beautiful," in 1895. (Courtesy John de Graaf) "O beautiful for heroes proved/In liberating strife ..." These words from ...
America the Beautiful: Quotation by Katharine Lee Bates at the Veterans Memorial in Memorial Park, Provo, Utah. Credit: Wikimedia Commons One mild October evening in 2001, my ABC News pals Kayce and ...